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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS – Some 1700 migrants – out of 2100 – scored more than 70 on a scale of 100 in the first countrywide examination for the Sufficient Knowledge Certificate for Naturalization, but still must undergo reviews to meet social criteria.
The Interior Ministry reported the results that showed most migrants had passed the knowledge criteria with flying colors and would be notified to come for an interview to also consider “economic and social criteria” to be granted their citizenship.
They have to also file income statements over the past three years and have worked a minimum number of days annually. Social criteria are “about if someone has integrated into the Greek way of life,” an official at the ministry’s Citizenship Secretariat told Kathimerini.
“For example, some had said in the past that they were not going to send their daughters to school because they don’t need the education. This is unacceptable; school is mandatory,” the unnamed official also said.
In some foreign cultures, such as Afghanistan, women are often not allowed to be educated and have fewer rights than men, which is not acceptable in Greece for them to be integrated into society and be given naturalized citizenship.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
BERLIN (AP) — At least five people were killed Wednesday when a bus headed from Berlin to Switzerland came off a highway in eastern Germany and ended up on its side, authorities said.
ΒΟSTON - The newly-elected Metropolitan Iakovos of Mexico, who was enthroned on Saturday, March 16th at the Cathedral of Aghia Sophia in Mexico City, gave his first interview as Metropolitan to The National Herald, which he described as a "historic newspaper," one he has known since childhood, as have his close relatives.
BALTIMORE - Authorities have released the identities of the two people recovered from the water Wednesday morning at the site of the Baltimore bridge collapse.
ATHENS — Police in Greece clashed late Wednesday with Communist-backed demonstrators who tried to prevent a concert by U.
ATHENS – Greece recorded a huge improvement in the business environment rankings of The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) among 82 countries worldwide.